Post All The Times Ed's Been a Dick

[Jorge]

Let's take a trip back to the year 2009.

[stip]

the good thing about being a few years behind on the internet is I only have to learn the things that are going to last.

[Norah]

Jorge, clearly I've done much worse in my life.

[Jorge]

Let's be specific, though.

[Norah]

That was such an awful year for me, it'd be like shooting fish in a barrel.

[harmless]

I can say with no hyperbole

Clearly you can't!

[stip]

I can no longer easily distinguish between years. Everything is pre and post kids.

[Jorge]

That was such an awful year for me, it'd be like shooting fish in a barrel.

2009 and 2010 were really awesome for me. 2011 was a huge dip, and then 2012 and 2013 went back to awesome. This tells me that 2014 will most likely be abysmal.

[stip]

what was bad about 2011?

[Norah]

2011 was also terrible.

[Jorge]

what was bad about 2011?

I only meant personally. A really weird, unstable relationship that ate up a lot of my emotional energy, some professional disappointments, and some family drama. I did sell my first script though.

[stip]

2011 was a pretty good year for me, I think. Got the book contract and Ellie was born. I don't remember much else about it.

[E.H. Ruddock]

what was bad about 2011?

I only meant personally. A really weird, unstable relationship that ate up a lot of my emotional energy, some professional disappointments, and some family drama. I did sell my first script though.

Was that the Canadian woman?

[Jorge]

Yup. I saw her recently, too, when I was in Miami. We get along great when we're not dating each other.

[stip]

holy shit, I'm gonna be late for work.

Have a good day, RM

[broken iris]

Yeah, its pretty ridiculous... ed is pro-choice for women...unless it mildly conveniences him... then its wrong to do what you want... major divergence in his personality and his persona... only a matter of time until they come completely polarised, separate and he is reduced to a dribbling mess... would support his apparent moodiness on this tour as reality crashes with his skewed perception of the world revolving around him(for further reading of this detachment read: Swallowed Whole by PJ)... You wont hear this on record as B'OB has been brought in to add window dressing to the music and also mash up Ed's lunch for him (ironically an Avocado sandwich... hence the nonsensical cover to the self-titled album... and the point of his soul splitting)... You really see the poignancy of 'Future Days' when you understand its about 2 split personality realising there is no middle ground and they have to live together in one body until the end.... and hence the jarring piano intro which sounds like the piano plonking of someone being dropped off at a mental facility... the irony of it all...Ed is dragged into the building with a chain attached to the Backspacer dog collar he is wearing. Sad

Go on....

[Strat]

It still reveals something about Eddie and his attitude towards women as evidenced by the recent woman getting kicked out of the pit.

I don't follow your logic. All it says is that Eddie is disappointed in a young girl who is possibly underage flashing her tits when she should be doing something worthwhile. And then he threatens to shit on her head.

Since when was bro's seeing Pearl Jam live 'something worthwhile'? Since when was buying fucking dog collars with Pearl Jam's name on them 'worthwhile'? Since when was installing a fireman's pole in your house 'worthwhile'? Ed encourages sycophancy, the 10 Club encourages sycophancy, unless it involves a woman wanting a body part signed (her 'mosquito bites')? How many zillions of fans have done this, and rather than saying 'Uh, maybe you shouldn't do that, lady, I wouldn't advise it,' he angrily says 'Mosquito bites!' There's no two ways about it, the guy was an absolute cock that night.

Would you like to check your baggage at the gate?


Also, as WcT said, Ed was still being a dick. He was providing context for where that dickishness came from. Maybe it came from the fact that he is a cold, black hearted, money loving, greedy, worse than hitler, mysoginsitic bastard. Or maybe he was having a shitty night and lashed out in an inappropriately dickish way. Which, of course, you or I or anyone else has never done.

But ignore this. I'm just a pearl jam apologist.

I think you're missing my point in your quickness to apologise for Pearl Jam, stip. My point is this and only this: flashing one's body part and saying 'Sign this!' is a pretty well-known fan sentiment in rock music. Countless comedies have parodied it. This was all the woman was doing, flashing her tits. I was not saying anything was *wrong* with the other fan actions that I listed, only that they are the actions of devoted fans. They are fine actions, but equally pointless actions. BEING A FAN IS NEEDLESS ENTERTAINMENT. So is flashing one's tits, sometimes. Or pulling moonies out of car windows, or whatever bro's do these days. For fuck sake, let's not tell off women for flashing their tits. If we really care about it, let's boycott Mardi Gras. The fact that we won't says a lot about how men want to prioritise their time; berate woman fans of rock bands for flashing their tits, but fap to their porn every night!

LOL. what? Maybe for Poison.

[evenslow]

Ugh. Beyond tired of Ed's vulgarity.

[Strat]

2008 was awesome
2009 was interesting
2010 was an abortion
2011 was damn near magical
2012 was a shit show
2013 was mostly great other than a few things
2014 is my fucking year.... watch out.

[stupidmop]

The worst part of the hershey rant isnt that he tells her she should be voting or whatever, its that he implies that if she had bigger tits he'd be here for that. 03 ed would have linked anything back to voting, "i bought a sandwich earlier....you know if everyone who bought a sandwich voted blah blah blah'

Anywho, at the end of this he calls out madonna AND marky marky for dropping their pants to get attention, looking and sounding like a jackass while doing so but still.


I'm always surprised that people are surprised ed can be an asshole. Maybe cause i became a fan more recently, post-backspacer right in the middle of target-gate and therefore missed out on the hero worship portion of my fandom? Dudes not perfect.'I shit and i stink im real join the club'(a song in which he self righteously rants about models years before marying one and thereby proving the point that he isn't infact perfect), i'm not your fucking messiah etc etc.